ESS 
allowed half an hour for dinner, half an 
hour for breakfast, and a quarter of an 
hour for tea, (winch they find themselves 
as well-as washing); a day to work for 
themselves, is only allotted at times when 
the orders are least. pressing, and it is 
not unusual to set them to repair the 
household linen, even in these solitary 
Faoments of what is called indulgence. 
The summer sun shines not on their 
walks, neither do they eujoy the stilt re- 
seshing hour of evenmg. rom the ball 
er the play they are prohibited, lest the 
customers should encounter them there, 
and feel their pride offended !_and shut 
up in solitude and hot werk-rooms,; they 
waste and pine, with no other consola- 
tion, but their mnocence, the society of- 
ten of good but unfortunate youth, and 
the hope, at the end of the period of 
their engagement, they shall be able to 
hail their liberty! As to those whose po- 
verty or want of courage detains them in 
this ill-paid slavery, I have seen many in- 
stances of its end being atrophy, pulmo- 
nary consumption, and more than once 
madness. But chilblains, hysterical af- 
fections, and stomachs entirely debili- 
tated, are almost the constant concomi- 
tants of this ill regulated employment. 
Would to God, then your Medical 
Reporter Dr. Reid, whose genius and hv- 
manity so often ader n your pages, would 
turn his thoughts to this distressing sub- 
ject; and may it so happen, that these 
just representations may meet the eye 
of some benevolent member of parlia- 
ment, and be the means of inducing him 
to devise some b Jl to regulate the pay 
and conduct of all those who groan un- 
der the iron bondage, and, being females, 
have hitherto found no helper. 
Your’s, &c. 
Grorer CUMBERLAND. 
— 
To the Editor of the Menthiy Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE passage alluded to by the gen- 
tleman, who, mp. 16 of the pre- 
sent volume has pana your readers 
with an account of the ancient city of 
Numantia, might indeed very well sur- 
prise him on the score of its palpable in- 
accuracy, which originated in the follow- 
ing manner. On first consulting a map of 
Spain, published under thé authority of 
the Royal Academy of Sciences, at Pa- 
ris, it was found that Almazan, which 
some have supposed to be the ancient 
Numantia, Jay coutiguous to the city of 
Taragona, ‘This was afterwards, by one 
On the Situation of Numancos. 
[April 1, 
of those sudden glares of the eye, which 
sometimes occasion mistakes like the pre= 
»sent, confounded with Tarragona on the 
coast of Catalonia, with which part of 
Spain, as well perhaps as with Numantia 
itself, the Numancos of Milton could 
have no connection. The situation 
therefore of this latter place, still remains 
to be ascertained; for, coupled as it is 
with Bayonne, it must be admitted, that 
no situation so distant from the coast as 
was Numanti« will answer the purpose of 
illustration. 
With your leave, Mr. Editor, I shall 
take this opportunity of offering a few 
more remarks on the following lines in 
Multon’s Lycidas, 
‘© When the great vision of the guarded 
mount 
Locks towards Nuieaey and Bayona’s 
- hold.” 
This mount is mal explained by Mr. 
Warton, to mean St. Michael’s Mount in 
Cornwall, and the vision to relate to St. 
Michael, “who, in the monkish legends, 
is reported to have often appeared for 
some particular purpose, on different 
mountains. ‘The first of these apparitions 
is said to have been-on Mount Gargan 
in Apulia, so called from a rich shepherd 
of that name. This man having acci- 
dentally lost one of his oxen, at length 
traced it ina grotto in the above mcun- 
tain. LExasperated at the trouble which 
the animal had caused, he shot a poison- 
ed arrow at him, which, recoilmg, 
wounded himself to death. ‘The inhabi- 
tants of the place consulted their bishop 
on what was to be done, and were ad- 
vised to fast three days, in order that the 
divine pleasure might be known, The 
Archangel Michael soon appeared to the 
good bishop, and disclosed to him, that 
it was he himself, whe had caused the 
shepherd to be slain, having received a 
command from God to guard the spot 
where the ox was found, as a sacred 
Agee In consequence of this, a church 
was afterwards dedicated to the Saint, 
and the mountain is still called Monte dz 
St. Angelo. Here the Saint is said to 
have re-appeared on many other occa- 
sions. 
The vision alluded to by Milton took 
place, as Mr. Warton states, en Saint 
Michael’s Mount in Cornwall, according 
to the legendary accounts of the works 
belonging to a cell founded theregn the 
time of the Conqueror; but we t 
appear to have been favoured with the 
exact particulars, The. French, ot to 
an 
